Thousands of Buddhist temples filled this sacred skyline. Entering a golden age a thousand years ago, Myanmar’s Bagan empire was home to dazzling structures that attracted pilgrims for centuries.

Bagan is the main reason – and for me, the only reason – to travel to Myanmar. Although some of the more than 2,000 pagodas were built as early as the 9th century, Bagan has not been granted ...

900 years ago, the Bagan Empire united Myanmar and transformed into a world centre of Buddhism. Curator and scholar Peter Lee explores how it grew and how its legacy still echoes in the modern nation.

The many thousand temples of Bagan, On the banks of the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River, in the Mandalay Region of Burma, lies the ancient city of Bagan. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was ...

Hundreds of centuries-old Buddhist pagodas rise from the dusty earth around Bagan, once the capital of a regional empire. The 50-square-kilometre (12,355-acre) site is also strewn with stupas ...

900 years ago, the Bagan Empire united Myanmar and transformed into a world centre of Buddhism. Curator and scholar Peter Lee explores how it grew and how its legacy still echoes in the modern nation.